Am I missing a touchscreen?

A month after purchasing an iPhone I bought a MacBook. My fingers now instinctively reach for the MacBook screen as though it were a Cocoa Touch interface. I like the MacBook's trackpad for some things, but a touchscreen registered to the MacBook display and sensitive enough for a stylus would be fantastic!! Is that too expensive?

In reading through TrollTouches site, they use pressure sensitive overlays:
+*Our proprietary, custom designed and manufactured touch sensitive overlays feature PSR-1® or Pressure Sensitive Resistive touchscreen technology and are mounted on either optically clear acrylic or chemically strengthened glass depending on the particular application. It is our ability to incorporate a very thin layer of this touch sensitive material inside or on to the hardware we’re modifying that enables us to do what we do. And since our overlays are analog resistive the customer is afforded maximum latitude in how and where the touchscreen is to be used since activation can be accomplished by any type of soft tipped stylus such as a fingertip, pencil point, eraser or gloved hand.*+
This will not give you the type of multi-touch that you're used to with an iPhone. It requires that you actually apply pressure (albeit minimal pressure)to the display. This is probably not an idea solution for a regular notebook. Tablet PCs that use this technology allow you to rotate the display and fold it down so you have a flat surface that you can either use a stylus or finger pressure on. These types of overlays tend to much somewhat less responsive than multi-touch which uses a different technology (which does not require pressure). You should probably talk to the manufacturer or look for reviews just to ask them about this before you decide to do it.

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Windows 8 Tablet / Touchscreen - On Screen Keyboard shortcut missing on Desktop

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On a windows 7 tablet, on the desktop, if I clicked a field (e.g. in Windows Explorer) a small keyboard icon appears with a shortcut to the on-screen-keyboard (OSK).
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I fully agree with ssxIdent and all other posters who find the new touch keyboard rather dumb.
There is no point in explaining why MS has decided to do things this or that way and what philosophic reasons they can come up with. MS needs to understand that software has to be accepted by the users and should not irritate them.
But this is irritating.
I thought one of the main concerns of MS was to be as intuitive as possible and provide a most satisfying user experiance - this is definetly not.
Has anyone at MS ever tried to e. g. rename several files in a directory with the touch keyboard? Especially when you get to the bottom of the screen. Then you not only need to have show/hide the keyboard permanently, you even have to bother moving it or
resize the window. That is NO GOOD USER EXPERIANCE!
I'd find it intuitive, if there was a way for developers in WPF or in Windows Forms to tag any UI element if it
Needs a keyboard (making the touch keyboard appear automatically) or
Would like a keyboard (showing a symbol next to the box, just like the X in WindowsStoreApps.TextBox, to trigger the keyboard or make it pop up automatically, if the keyboard had an option that can be set by the user to respond to these UI elements) or
Can have a keyboard (behaviour as is now)
Once an application was built this way, users would intuitively be able to navigate through their beloved apps haveing the keyboard at hand when they will need it anyway, being able to access it just with a twitch of the hand if they want it and not being
annoyed by it when they normally would not need it AND not being annoyed by permanently having to show/hide/show/hide that dratted thing by making miles of hand movement for nothing.
For applications that are not tailormade this way some options to adjust the keyboard behaviour would help, too. Just provide an option to hook the keyboard to any focus change, and give users a selection of options to what major control types the keyboard
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on leave.
Some other thing I'm not happy with:
I know Modern UI came somehow via Windows Phone 7, but our tablets, touch enabled laptops, ... are no telephones, so why has the touch keyboard numpad have the "1" at the top left corner and not at the bottom left like every other hardware keyboard
or even the MS Windows OSK???????? In this point I contradict the explanation in the otherwise quite interesting article about the
Design Concept because typing in numbers has more often to do with maths than with telephoning or switching TV channels. And calculators have the 1,2,3 in the bottom row, as have HW keyboards. The other misconception lies therin that you don't need to find
1,2,3 quicker with your eyes when you are typing lots of numbers e. g. into spreadsheets. The fingers of HW keyboard, calculator or cash register users are so used to the conventional position of the digits that won't be easy to reshape. Additionally when
typing in quantities of numbers right handed users (90% of world population) will have the hand rest on the keyboard, the thumb on 0 and index finger, middle finger, ring finger doing their respective columns low value low down, high value high up. Who
is dialing phone numbers or changing TV channels this way? But what will users do more often with the numpad - especially when dealing with loads of input data?
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is annoying, too! Even with the peek thingy, since you need two hands.
Why is there no indication what special characters are hidden behind a long press? It's possible when you press Ctrl, despite most people already knowing what Ctrl+C means. e. g. where is the paragraph sign "§"on the touch keyboard? Or have
you left it out, so lawyers can't sue you for developing this touch keyboard ;-) You have added a set of emojos, but forgotten to put a character on that is on virtually any other keyboard??? Rather give us a layer user/developers could fill with their own
set of special characters and swap the Ctrl hints for a special character preview.
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you not used it properly??? Nevermind feeling crowded, as mentioned in the article, give us an checkbox in keyboard options than we can decide if we want it or not. Since the article argues that users tend to get comfortable with the keyboard after a while
and needn't look at it, this "over crowded" feeling would fade away just the same. Or you might even dim it a bit when there is no finger near it.
Where are the Fn keys? Give us an option - we'll decide if we want it e. g. on the left side of the alpha block. Just as with numpad this could be dimmed, too.
I'd have a lot more suggestions to throw into this, but I fear you'll not even pick up on the easiest or most fundamental ones.
Prove me wrong! Please do! I dare you!!!

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My reseller was able to secure stock of the i7 model for me (20A70035US), so I bought that one instead and will return the i5 model for a refund. I am just waiting for RMA approval from Lenovo so it can be sent back for processing.
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Ps and touchscreens - why not help us out?

I used to love adobe LR and PS. Now PS eats my computer when I have PS and LR open, they now charge full price (which is very expensive) if you are more than one version behind, try to make money off you monthly with the cloud and now won't work with touchscreens. What's the point of a 'normal' amateur photograhic artist like myself buying this? I want to buy a new touchscreen convertable laptop/tablet for my photographic art but it seems adobe don't want me to use PS on it...am I missing something or are they cornering themselves out of the market or into particular hardware?

How would you expect to use Photoshop with a touch screen, exactly?
Photohop seems all about precision, and not to mention has pretty tiny UI elements. Seems to me your finger would just get in the way more than anything else.
Pros use stylus type interfaces (e.g., a Wacom Cintiq) for the precision and not having one's own hand get in the way of seeing what one is doing.
Plesae understand, I'm not being critical of your request. As a non-touch user myself I'd just like to know more of what you're thinking.
-Noel

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I currently have a HP Pavilion x360 2in1 convertible laptop. The model # is 11-n010dx. My issue is the touchscreen was working just fine with Win 8 on it, however, I need to be able to connect to my work network and that requires Win 8.1 pro. I did the upgrade to Win 8.1 pro 64-bit and the touchscreen is not even recognized by the OS. It states "No pen or Touch input is available for this display." I have installed all of the drivers, nothing is missing from the device manager. I try to install SP57846 but get an error that states that my computer does not meet the minimum requirememnt for this update. I just need drivers to run my touchscreen in Win 8.1 pro 64-bit.
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Hi @ThundarTheOrk ,
Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome. I have looked into your issue about your HP Pavilion 11-n010dx x360 and the Touchscreen not working correctly after a Windows 8.1 update. Here is a link to a document on troubleshooting the Touchscreen.
Here is a fix I found from Microsoft.
The touchscreen shouldn’t need recalibration, but if you or another user has recalibrated it, it may affect the performance of the touchscreen.
Here’s how to check or restore the factory default calibration using a keyboard or mouse:
Press the Windows logo key Type Control Panel, then use the arrow keys to highlight Control Panel, and press Enter.
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Under Tablet PC Settings use the arrow keys to highlight Calibrate the screen for pen or touch input, and press Enter.
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If the Reset button is grayed out, your Surface touch calibration is still at factory settings and nothing further required.
Use the Tab key to select Yes, press Enter, and then follow the instructions on the screen.
Hope this works for you.
Thanks.
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Touchpad touchscreen problems (erratic behavior/not responding correctly/etc) temporary solution.

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Hello all,
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

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If I'm looking: Menu > Settings > Application Mgr. > Installed apps. - what incidences of either Nokia or OVI Maps do you have installed already?
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Hey,
I think I have the exact problem as you with the HP Pavilion dv6. My finger always needs to be touching the screen for around a full second before the touch function is activated.
I have been searching the whole internet with no luck on any help and the only closest post I have found is your.
What is funny is that just minutes after finding your post I think I have solved the problem!
For my laptop the problem came from the computer turning off my touchscreen device/driver to save power.
So, what I did is that I went into "Device Manager" from "My Computer".
Then once inside "Device Manger", underneath the "Human Interface Devices" catagory I found "Wacom Gesture Touch", which I guessed is the device that is controlling my touchscreen.
Once inside "Wacom Gesture Touch", I clicked the "Power Managment" tab and found and UNCHECKED the "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" option.
And that was it! Now my touch screen response to my finger the moment it touches the screen.
Go to device manger and see if you have any luck of finding the device/driver that is controlling/driving your touch screen and see if this helps.
Hopefully this can solve your problem too! It has been bothering me for the longest time.

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